New Flower Bed

Last Thanksgiving, our deck burned because Roy's grill fell thru. Anyone who knows Roy, knows that on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and pretty much any other day he has an excuse, he is gonna have his grill fired up and smoking some kind of meat. Well, last Thanksgiving was no exception. Unfortunately, that poor grill had been hot one too many times and the bottom fell thru and the burning wood fell onto the deck surrounding our pool. Luckily, our neighbors came out during the night and saw the flames, got our waterhose, and put out the fire, otherwise, it would have gone to the fence and Lord forbid, the house.

Well, this summer, Roy took up the boards to the deck and we (or he and Zach) filled it in with topsoil. I had good intentions of putting a pretty flower bed there. My intentions were good.......but you know that they say about that.....

Here's the beginnings.....monkey grass dug up and transplanted around the front edge.........

.....and the Crepe Myrtle, dug up and transplanted to the center to be my "focal point".......and OH, what a focal point it is.......

.....guess I should have listened to my husband who told me to wait until the Fall to dig up the Crepe Myrtle! I hate when he's right!

But, luckily, my buddy Michelle Withers Green has informed me to cut it off at the base and hopefully the roots will form and come back next year!

.....to be continued......Summer 2011!!!